Three schools to decide Kay Motsepe Cup winners

Three high schools from across the Waterberg have been lined up to decide the region’s representative at the Limpopo provincial leg of the Kay Motsepe Cup.

The three schools, among them Bela-Bela Soccer Academy (Bela-Bela High School), one from Thabazimbi and the other from Modimolle, were scheduled to play round-robin fixtures midweek.

The overall winners would represent the Waterberg at the coveted high schools’ soccer tournament at the next round of matches in Polokwane.

The three regional finalists were expected to do battle at the Bela-Bela High School Stadium.

Officials could not, by early this week, identify the names of the two schools from Thabazimbi and Modimolle.

Bela-Bela Soccer Academy (Bela-Bela High School) emerged the Warmbaths circuit winners after beating Raeleng High School 1-0.

The local academy soccer team was also the winner of the Waterberg preliminary stages of the tournament in 2017, but was sent packing at the provincial levels.

The Sanlam Kay Motsepe Cup, hosted under the auspices of the South African Schools Football Association (SASFA), is the biggest schools football tournament in the country with prizemoney of
over R3-million.

The national winners take home R1-million prizemoney, with R600 000 set aside for the runners-up, and R500 000 for the team coming out third, and R400 000 for fourth place.

Provincial winners receive R100 000 in prizemoney.

The Sanlam Kay Motsepe Cup is an initiative co-funded by Sanlam, the Ubuntu-Botho Community Development Trust and the Motsepe Family Foundation.

— The BEAT